Richard Wunderer
Richard Wunderer (* 1947 near Vienna ; † 2009 near Cologne ) was an Austrian writer who used the pseudonyms Larry Harper , Andrew Hathaway and Bob Collins , among others .
life and work
The son of the youth and non-fiction author Richard Wunderer (1926-2015) grew up in Vienna, the Matura took off and studied Jus to make without a degree. From 1972 he lived in Cologne and was briefly an editor at Bastei-Verlag .
From the early 1970s he wrote several hundred booklets of novels in the genres of romance, crime, homeland and doctor novels, princely and aristocratic novels, horror and fantasy, including contributions to series such as silver crime , Jerry Cotton , Checkpart , John Sinclair , Zeitkugel , Geister Crime thriller and ghost crime thriller .
The London private detective Rick Masters , who was invented by him, had his own sub-series at Kelter Verlag from 1974 to 1984 within the ghost crime thrillers and other booklet series of the publisher (a total of 89 booklets and paperbacks, reprints from 1995).
1974–1976 ran the Monstrula series . Of the 46 issues, Wunderer wrote 45, one of them with a co-author.
His novels have also appeared under the publishing pseudonyms Frederic Collins , Frank DeLorca , Brian Elliot and MR Richards . He also translated paperbacks from the American (including Kojak novels) and wrote paperbacks for TV series (including Das Traumschiff ).
He lived as a freelance writer and editor near Cologne.
Works (selection)
- Cursed to kill , 1974
- Inferno on the deadline , 1975
- The Claw Killer of New York , 1975
Monstrula
- The curse of the spirit
- Grotto of horror
- The lock of the thousand eyes
- The magician's death ball
- Prisoners of the Hell Serpent
- Killer dolls of the spirit world
- Blood Cellar of Terror
- Satan directs
- The plague doesn't need a passport
- The doll killer in a blood frenzy
- The eerie panopticon
- House of Hell's Torments
- Two steps to the abyss
- Execution time until midnight
- The killer cat
- The witcher with the red eyes
- In the frenzy of madness
- Pharaoh's blood
- Lady Asher's Feast of the Dead
- Idol of Eternal Terror
- Death butterfly
- A country house for Satan
- In the clinch of death
- White death in the black continent
- The ghost trap
- The demon man
- The murderous inferno
- Jack Callum - Prisoner of Terror
- The blood goddess
- Terror of the Demons
- Murder under hypnosis
- The war of the spirits
- DC 82 - Flight into horror
- The creepy page
- Gloria Heller got it
- Dance on the edge
- Devilish threat
- Who goes mad
- The demon mask
- Caricature of horror
- The blood lock
- Ten steps to death
- The ghost ship
- The person from the retort
- Invisible fetters
- The tomb of the pale bones
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Wunderer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Daber: Geister-Schocker radio play No. 16: A dead man returns. In: Gruselromane.de. Retrieved September 27, 2013 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Wonderful Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harper, Larry (pseudonym); Hathaway, Andrew (pen name); Collins, Bob (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | near Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | 2009 |
Place of death | near Cologne |